Category: Scifi

Stargate SG-1 actor Carmen Argenziano has sadly passed away at the age of 75. Carmen played Jacob Carter in the TV series. He appeared in more movies and TV series than it’s almost possible to name, but film highlights include The Godfather, and as well as Stargate, his TV series included The Bionic Woman, Knight […]

In the alternative reality comedy movie Yesterday, a failing musician Jack Malik (played by actor Himesh Patel) loses a few teeth while falling over during a worldwide power cut caused by a particle accelerator accident. He realises a few days later that he’s shifted into a parallel reality identical to our current Earth except for […]

Here’s an interesting short science fiction movie called The Manual, set In the distant future, where James is – maybe – the last human on Earth. He is raised and protected by a humanoid robot, the Machine, who brings him up on a strange composite religion described in a handheld device called The Manual. The […]

The first ‘Binti’ novella was truly wonderful and made a real impression when I first read it. The story constantly challenges the preconceptions of the reader even as it challenges the preconceptions of the characters within it. Binti comes from the Himba tribe in Namibia(?), a people who rarely leave their homeland and are looked […]

‘Indigo Prime: Anthropocalypse’ collects three stories from the ‘Indigo Prime’ series that originally appeared in Britain’s greatest comic magazine ‘2000AD’. All are scripted by John Smith and the artists are Lee Carter and Edmund Bagwell, who has sadly departed this vale of tears. First up is ‘Dead Eyes’ with art by Lee Carter which doesn’t […]

Argosy Smith is a swashbuckling super-scientist hero in the tradition of Doc Savage but he lives in a very different future where you really must return overdue library books. In the 21st century, Earth moved into another region of space, an event known as ‘The Shift’. After The Shift, the laws of physics changed, space […]

The future is no sack of shits and giggles in the Season 3 trailer for the TV adaption of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. This trailer is currently at over ten million views – so, America’s Watching, citizen. Watching, you. Under his eye. We truly hope you are found without … sin!

Here’s a short trailer for the forthcoming Captain Marvel movie set in the 1990s before all the big game superheroes in the Marvel Universe started getting trotted out for their movies. Will we get some insights into how Thanos is to be beaten in the Infinity Wars future? Well, she did get paged by Nick Fury! […]

Here’s another trailer for the live action Alita Battle Angel film put together by Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron. Hollywood seems to be littered with the bones of anime cartoons made into live action flicks that then bombed and died. Will Alita Battle Angel break this terrible and seemingly intractable curse? Time will tell-eth!

Here’s the teaser trailer for the ten episode reboot of the Twilight Zone TV series – for the kids amongst you, this is from Rod Serling’s seminal 1959 TV series of scifi/horror-ish video-format short stories with a shock or two in their tail. It’ll hit your small screens on April 1st 2019 on CBS’s subscription […]